>”No, you are not going to explain the universe or define the entirety of life habits of your practitioners.” Counterintuitively, the religions/sects that do e

>”No, you are not going to explain the universe or define the entirety of life habits of your practitioners.” Counterintuitively, the religions/sects that do exactly what you’re describing happen to be the most successful. Not only do they seem to hold on to adherents at a much higher rate than their more lenient peers, their adherents tend to be far more fecund. I suppose from a pseudo Darwinian standpoint, this strategy is more successful. I don’t recall what study this was from, but based on current trends in the year 2100, 50% of Christians in the United States with either be Amish or Mormon. Over 50% of Jews will be Orthodox/Ultra Orthodox rather than Reform. All because these religions/sects do precisely what we think they shouldn’t be doing.